
iA Writer
StackEdit
Obsidian
Dillinger
Markdown by DaringFireball
MacDown
MarkdownPad
A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.

Obsidian
Joplin
Clearly Markdown
iA Writer
A WYSIWYG Markdown editor for macOS, Windows and Linux that renders as you type and never rewrites a byte you didn't touch. Free to use, everything unlocked.
Which is more popular?
Based on our record, Typora seems to be more popular. It has been mentioned 94 times since March 2021.
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If you are a visual person like me, you respond to titles, headings, and specific formatting of text. This is what landed Typora on this list. Typora is extremely customizable. You can make any note in any format you...
It is very well built with simplicity in mind. There are several themes and all of them look amazing. I love the "typewriter" and "focus" mode. In contrast with other apps that focus the current window and remove all...
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Recommendations tracked on public social media and blogs since March 2021.


Genuinely WYSIWYG. Typora is the one that established this way of working and is still the cleanest version of it, for a single person writing prose. MarkText is the open-source answer to it and is free. - Source: dev.to / 20 days ago
Option 2: Dedicated markdown app.Typora, Obsidian, or similar. Better editing experience, but now you're context-switching between your code editor and your docs editor. Copy-pasting paths, losing mental context, duplicating effort. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
> I’d love some app with the polish of Bear Notes but that just edited raw Markdown files. Typora? (https://typora.io/). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
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Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor.
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A clean, native markdown editor for Mac.
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